People ex rel. City of New York v. Lyon
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Certiorari issued out of the Supreme Court and attested on the 4th day of August, 1905, directed to Robert Huh and others, composing the board of assessors of the city of New York, requiring them to certify and return to the office of the clerk of the county of New York all and singular their proceedings had relating to the claim of Elizabeth Lyon for damages arising from the change of grade occasioned by the construction of the Third avenue bridge.
1Opinion of the Court
Houghton, J.:
The board of assessors of the city of New York awarded, to the respondents Lyon and others $80,000 as damages to property owned by them abutting on the approach along One Hundred and Thirtieth street to the Third avenue bridge across the Harlem river, because of changes of grade caused by the construction of such approach.
The approach begins at Lexington avenue at grade and gradually rises, supported by a solid wall of masonry, along the front of respondents’ property and along the northerly side of One Hundred and Thirtieth street, to an extreme height at the bridge of…
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